If a contractor is in a right-to-work state, but is covered by the Railway Labor Act, does the right-to-work exemption apply?
A. Since Section 2, Eleventh of the Railway Labor Act permits union security agreements in the railway and airline industry despite a state right-to-work law, RLA covered contractors are never in jurisdictions where state law forbids enforcement of union-security agreements [for them]. Therefore, they are never covered by the right-to-work exemption.
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